Security News > 2020 > December > Pompeo Blames Russia for Massive US Cyberattack
Russia was "Pretty clearly" behind a devastating cyberattack on several US government agencies that also hit targets worldwide, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
"There was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of US government systems," Pompeo told The Mark Levin Show on Friday.
James Lewis, vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the attack may end up being the worst to hit the United States, eclipsing the 2014 hack of US government personnel records in a suspected Chinese infiltration.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private sector organizations had been targeted by what it called an "Advanced persistent threat actor."
Pompeo had also suggested Moscow's involvement on Monday, saying the Russian government had made repeated attempts to breach US government networks.